This week in history

March 27 1943. The The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR ratified a decision on creating the State Literary-Artistic Museum of Taras Shevchenko.

March 27 1993. The first presentation of Kyivska Pectoral, a yearly theater prize, took place in Kyiv.

March 28 1708. Russian Tsar Peter I issued an ukase on replacing the church Slavonic font with a secular one.

March 28 1999. The Ukrainian missile carrier ship Zenit ZSL was successfully launched for the first time from a floating platform (within the framework of the project entitled Morskyi Start/ Sea Start.)

March 29 1917. The Polubotko Ukrainian Military Club was created in Kyiv, headed by M.Mikhnovsky, who started at once to form the national army.

March 29 1993. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was held in Kyiv.

March 30 1651. The negotiations between Bohdan Khmelnitsky and Ambassador of the Great Kingdom of Lithuania Myslavsky took place in Bila Tserkva.

March 30 1821. The Southern Society of Decembrists was founded in Tulchyn, Vinnytsia region.

March 31 1970. The country’s largest pipe-rolling shop started working at the Nikopol South-Pipe Metallurgy Plant.

March 31 1993. The First Ukrainian International Festival Berezil- 93 started in Kharkiv.

April 1 1922. The Artem Communist University was opened in Kharkiv.

April 1 1992. The Foundation of Fundamental Research was established in Kyiv.

April 2 1924. The Ukrainian Committee of Donbas Assistance was created.

April 2 1991. A Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Ukrainian SSR and Kyrgyzstan Republic was signed in Bishkek.